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plyr’s idata.frame VS. data.frame

I had seen the function idata.frame in plyr before, but not really tested it. Here are a few comparisons of operations on normal data frames and immutable data frames. Immutable data frames don't work with the doBy package, but do work with aggregate in base functions. Overall, the speed gains using idata.frame are quite impressive - I will use it more often for sure.